Category: quote
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dallas willard on “the blessed”
A friend recommended I read the fourth chapter of Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy in preparation for the sermon on mercy this coming Sunday. The other day I read the following. This is the gospel for a silly world, all the more needed because the silly is made a matter of life and death for…
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the wonder of halloween
My friend Steve has some thoughts about Halloween over at rednoW. I move in Christian circles where a lot of people really don’t like Halloween. They don’t like the fact that a lot of kids dress up like witches and ghosts. They don’t like the fact, urban myth or actual truth, that satanists use this…
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quote of the day
The small group I’m a part of is currently looking at the Sermon on the Mount. On Sunday evening we read through the entire thing out loud twice. After reading it the first time we were looking for some of the big themes of the sermon and one of the guys said, The Sermon on…
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augustine of hippo on mercy
While preparing for a sermon on mercy in a couple of weeks I came across this quote from Augustine of Hippo. I’m not sure whether it will make it in to the sermon or not, but I thought I’d share it here. Your hear the voice of a beggar, but before God you yourself are…
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scott mcknight on “breathing”
Scott McKnight is a professor at North Park University in Chicago whose blog I link to from this site. I’ve found much of what Scott writes about the Scriptures to be incredibly helpful in my relationship with Jesus. In a recent post on his blog he wrote about our tendency to cram WAY too much…
David W. Swanson 